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US Premieres at Screamfest

The first public screening of the film in the United States. 

Film Category

In Our Blood

Meet the Filmmaker

Pedro Kos

Director
Synopsis
Nothing is as it seems when filmmaker Emily Wyland (Brittany O’Grady) teams up with cinematographer Danny (E. J. Bonilla) to shoot an intimate documentary about reuniting with Emily’s estranged mother after a decade apart. When her mother suddenly goes missing, possibly succumbing to the addictions that first tore her family apart, Emily and Danny must piece together increasingly sinister clues to find her before it’s too late. Directed by Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker Pedro Kos (Rebel Hearts, Lead Me Home) in his first narrative feature, IN OUR BLOOD masterfully blends psychological mystery with chilling horror. The film weaves a twisted tale of reconciling with the ghosts of our past and confronting the complicity we share in creating a world that preys on the most vulnerable.
Film Category

Fresh Blood

Meet the Filmmaker

Emma Westenberg

Director
Synopsis
Doe eyed and in love, Anna attends the housewarming party of her new boyfriend Nico. The night quickly unravels as she meets his friends, some classic Hollywood pricks. Tales about ex girlfriends and Nico’s promiscuity swirl and her new lover also tells his guests about a “haunted” basement that he warns them not to enter. Anna starts drinking to suppress her discomfort, but instead becomes increasingly intoxicated and paranoid. After losing track of Nico, Anna escapes his friends and searches frantically for him in the maze-like house. She follows an odd banging sound down to the foreboding basement where the true horror is revealed.
Film Category

The Skimmer

Meet the Filmmaker

Derek Wallis Jordan Connor

Directors
Synopsis
Ring….BRrinng….BBRRRIING!! Paul, a pool boy, picks up a telephone he has no business answering. The voice on the line invites Paul to a party in exchange for a favor. But Paul doesn’t realize what is truly at stake.
Film Category

Scared Shitless

Meet the Filmmaker

Vivieno Caldinelli

Synopsis
A plumber and his germophobic son are forced to get their hands dirty to save the residents of an apartment building, when a genetically engineered, blood-thirsty creature escapes into the plumbing system.
Film Category

HIVE

Meet the Filmmaker

Felipe Vargas

Writer/Director
Synopsis
In this real-time horror-thriller, a strict babysitter loses the young girl she's taking care of at a playground, forced to confront an insidious entity hidden among the children. The rare horror film set in bright daytime - an idyllic, innocent playground turned sinister and visceral.

HIVE stars Marvel superhero and Dancing with the Stars winner Xochitl Gomez in the leading role.
Film Category

Ju-on: The Grudge

Meet the Filmmaker

Takashi Shimizu

Director
Synopsis
From the people who brought you The Ring comes a terrifying new film about a supernatural force that is unleashed upon a quiet community. Those who come into contact with it, eventually go insane and meet untimely and sudden deaths. Five years a go, a man murdered his wife and his child but were so haunted by their spirits, he eventually went insane and was mysteriously found dead months later. A new family has moved into their home, and this is where we pick up the story.....

The Grudge is told from various different vantage points, each terrifying vignette exploring new information about what his supernatural force is and where it originated from. The final results will be sure to shock you.....

The Grudge began as a short lived Japanese television series was cancelled after just two episodes. Produced by Taka Ichise and written and directed by Takashi Shimizu the result was a cult following so large that the two teamed up again for this full feature length. Thisisa first look at the filmed version of THE GRUDGE, set for wide release in Japan Winter2002.

The American filmed version of THE GRUDGE has been acquired by Vertigo Films, producers of the US remake of The Ring (Dreamworks) and will be written and directed by Stephen Susco. Susco a seasoned screenwriter and a die hard horror fan, will be at the screening to hear some thoughts and reactions of the viewers.

This film will be released on January 25, 2003. According to the producers in Japan, Ozla Pictures, the film was highly regarded at the premiere screening. Many people claimed it was 'the most frightening film they ever saw'. In a lot of the Asian territories, distributors are fighting over its distribution rights.

They are also gearing up to shoot the sequel in December 2002. It will also be directed by Takashi Shimizu.
Film Category

Ressurection Mary

Meet the Filmmaker

Matthew Arnold

Director
Synopsis
A young reporter sets out to find the story of a lifetime, but he learns that in the town of Resurrection, something strange has been happening!
Film Category

Lyckantropen

Meet the Filmmaker

Steve Ericsson

Director
Synopsis
In a quiet neighborhood of a small city, we find a family in turmoil as a man struggles for balance for himself and his family. Wrestling an inferno of emotions, he ventures deeply into himself finding the most primal of all truths: The beast within.
Film Category

Daughter

Meet the Filmmaker

Eduardo Rodriguez

Director
Synopsis
A mother's worst nightmare turns out to be her worst hell.
Film Category

Black Wedding

Meet the Filmmaker

Scott Peters

Director
Synopsis
A psychological horror about a doctor who cant bear to part with his patient, even after her death.
Film Category

A Tale Of Two Sisters

Meet the Filmmaker

Kim Jee Woon

Director
Synopsis
Eun-joo, the stepmother, welcomes two sisters who come back home after recovering their health, but Su-mi, the elder sister, intentionally avoids her and Su-yeon, the younger sister, shows a smack of fear for her stepmother. On their first night, Su-yeon sneaks in Su-mi's room confessing there is someone in her room and Su-mi sees a ghost of her late mother who hung herself in Su-yeon's closet. Strange things begin to happen since then; a ghost haunts the house and stepmother's birds are poisoned to death. Assuming Su-yeon is behind the inauspicious incidents, the stepmother locks her in the closet, and when Su-mi learns about the cruel punishment, conflict between the stepmother and two sisters gets bitter than ever.
One day, Mu-hyun, the father goes to town and Su-mi finds there is no sign of her younger sister, Su-yeon and Su-mi sports Eun-joo dragging a big bag through the dark corridor leaving bloody stains behind her. Su-mi follows bloody trace of the bag and she confronts with Eun-joo on her way of tracking. They starts to fight vehemently and Su-mi falls down struck by Eun-joo in the end... A while later, Mu-hyun comes back to the house and founds Su-mi fallen on the floor alone and enraged Mu-hyun exclaims that Su-yeon was already dead. His exclamation awakes a series of memories and hidden secrets buried deep inside of Su-mi...
Film Category

Tears Of Kali

Meet the Filmmaker

Andreas Marschall

Director
Synopsis
The eerie stories around the Taylor-Eriksson-group and their members are told in three episodes Shakti, Devi, Kali, embedded into a frame plot. The group tried to redefine the limits of self-finding, sex & violence. Starting as a psychological cat-and-mouse-game, the story soon turns into pure horror.